Porter Ellett of Bicknell, Utah lost his arm in an auto accident when he was four years old. He became a star basketball player for Wayne High School, leading the team to the state playoffs. But that’s not all, he also plays on the baseball team and runs track, too. Now he is a student at Brigham Young University. Porter dreams to enter into the sports radio field.

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Below is a video of Porter playing High School basketball. Inspiring stuff.

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Bud

Shopped…. I'm just kidding. this is amazing but if I just bumped into one of these pictures I would definitely think it was shopped.

dicksalad

chopped….

Tom Acky

Agree, shopped! Bud, take a joke. I guarantee you Porter has a sense of humor, you should too. I think the school good have gone the extra mile and sewed up the arm hole on is jersey though.

thechevron

damn I was going to write that

lolz

definitely thought the same thing haha

Derek

way to go man.. make us all look even worse

hMMMM

"An accident when Ellett was 4 rendered his right hand, which was his dominant hand, completely unusable. But it hasn't stopped him from becoming a successful athlete and person. Ellett eventually learned to swing a bat with his left hand — he did it by holding a bat under his chin, tossing a ball into the air, and then transferring the bat to his hand before hitting the falling ball — and years later he has become one of Class 1A's best players."

*just trying to make you feel better….HA! Incredible.

carl

way to go man! hell, Jim Abbott ended up as a starting pitcher!

Tom Acky

Yea, but Abbot had 3/4 of an arm and could place the glove on it. He has a big advantage over this kid.

Brian

#7
And to think I need two arms just to post on the Chive.

bridgemaster

yet you still type one handed..

DoucheNozzle

that three he shot was out of bounds once it touched the top of the backboard. just saying

jrp

i think it has to go over the backboard

FloppyRocks

The top and sides of the backboard are never out of bounds, only the back is.

frank

I can't speak for highschool rules, but in the NBA the top of the backboard is not out of bounds. The back of the backboard is out of bounds. Now if it would have hit some supporting structure or cable or anything else up there, it would have been out of bounds. But maybe in highschool that is out of bounds. I don't claim to know.

eggnog

Yeah in my high school top of the backboard was out

FloppyRocks

Bud

Take it easy… This is incredible and really inspiring but your telling me that those basketball pics don't look shopped?

Bud Bundy the limp

let me slice of your arm at the shoulder and try to convince your facebook pictures that they aren't shopped, schmuck…

aaaa

That makes zero sense….

tdot

Bud Bundy the limp is DEFINITELY one of those sensitive Chivers who gets his XXXL knickers into a knot if he thinks someone he'll never meet (Chivette, one-armed athlete, a girl) may have been the target of an insult. He, like the rest of them, should go fuck themselves.

Rawr

Bud, like our friend here, I think you might be missing something.

CNG

Bud you are a fucking knobhead

sshuggi

It's amazing how strong will power can be sometimes.

Brutal Deluxe

Yeah, Will's a pretty strong guy. Has a lot of willpower, too.

mike

good stuff. i love shit like this

Tuff Guy

Makes Jim Abbott look like a pile of puke…. Seems like he'd be easy to strike out though.

aaaa

But how much can he bench press?

JGMarine

Every person who spends their lives complaining about how unfair life is, waiting on a hand out, and blaming others for their setbacks needs to pay attention to this young man!!!

Brutal Deluxe

*horrible comment referencing nonstandard number of hands redacted*

cockout

it's lebrons fault he lost his arm

http://www.facebook.com/Gingergreek Pani Booyah

He's not an inspiration. He's dangerous!! If he had two arms he would already be ruling the world. Mark my words, its only a matter of time before he does!!

*runs away*

Rafiki

he should be a swordsman

Sue Acide

Looks like the competition disarmed him.

http://twitter.com/eric_hand @eric_hand

Amazing!

Plebargain

Maybe he should go into designing slot machines…. 😡

Arnold W. Fuller

How many times do you think he dressed as a bandit for Halloween?

Laura

Porter is one sexy chiver!

Bob

Respect!!!!!

Arnold W. Fuller

Big deal, he still can't clap.

Sophia

#3 – This guy is DAMN hot…

hMMMM

even with a cast on the one good arm, still on the courts. Baller.

jules

You aren't wrong. He is ridiculously attractive; missing limbs or no.

Arnold W. Fuller

Too bad he's going to BYU. No premarital sex for him. The only positive of losing an arm is the ability to use it for hot, steamy, sympathy sex.

Da Sandman

#5 how does this guy swing the bat..?

Anon

you can swing it one armed… youll just have less power. But more then you would think as a lot of your power comes from legs/torso

mike

it's true that a lot of your power comes from your lower half, but the sheer fact that he's swinging one armed, leads me to believe he'd have a hard time hitting the ball out of the infield. i'm not being mean when i say that. i thought the same thing as the sandman when i saw this picture. hell, i played baseball though college and a short stint in the minors and had a tough time hitting the ball. that's why i'm sitting at this computer now, posting on the chive, instead of banging hot chicks in the penthouse i bought with my last check from the yankees.

oughtnot

If you watch the baseball video that is an option after the video in the post, you can see him at bat hitting the ball into right field. Not bad for a one armed man.

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